Ex-president to appear before judges at the ICC for alleged crimes against humanity committed during election standoff.

The European Union (EU) has formally given the go-ahead to the launch of a 500-strong military mission in Mali to support France in its war on the West African country.

French and Malian troops have seized Mali’s town of Bourem, after they launched operations against fighters, France's military officials say.

Egypt’s teleommunications ministry and a rights group have filed appeals to reverse an order by a court aimed at blocking the video-sharing website YouTube.

Libya has arrested four foreigners in the major city of Benghazi on suspicion of proselytizing and distributing Christian literature.

A Sudanese official says six people have been killed and one injured in an armed attack by South Sudan's army against a Sudanese Arab tribe.

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Monday urged Kenyans to rise up in unity and reject all perpetrators of hate and division in the country.

The United Nations has congratulated the government of Sudan and a major rebel group in Sudan's western region of Darfur on the signing of a ceasefire agreement in Doha on Sunday, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said here on Monday.

The South African government on Monday pledged to address prison overcrowding which is ranked the most serious in Africa.

The Burundian government via the east African country's Central Bank (BRB) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) on Feb. 7 signed a cooperation agreement whereby the BRB appointed IFC to provide "specific advisory" services to support the Burundi market in developing an appropriate credit reporting system, a press release from the IFC said Monday.

The head of Guinea's armed forces along with 10 other people including five top Guinean military officials have been killed in a plane crash in Liberia.

Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have captured the leader of a rebel group in the eastern province of South Kivu, an aide to the provincial governor says.

Egyptian security forces have used water cannon to disperse anti-government demonstrators near the presidential palace in the capital, Cairo.

French-led troops have conducted house-to-house searches for local fighters in Mali’s northern city of Gao after they seized the strategic city.

At least 103 people have been killed in a militant attack on a convoy of people and their cattle in South Sudan’s Jonglei state.

A strong explosion has rocked the city of Gao in northern Mali, amid reports of ongoing fighting between French-led troops and fighters in the African country.

A car bomb attack in Somalia’s central region of Galkayo has claimed the lives of at least five people, including the attacker, police say.

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has set plans to feed 1.6 million people in Somalia, who are in a dire need of food, Press TV reports.

A French combat helicopter has bombarded an area in Mali’s northern city of Gao, where fighters have been clashing with French-led forces since February 9.

A US defense spokesman details the US Air Force support for the French war in Mali.